Note 130 — Chapter XVIII
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2 Kings xx. 12, 13.
[131] Θανατοῦτε: observe the present tense, the process is a continuing one.
[132] The Aramaic "Abba," used by our Lord in His hour of darkness, had probably become an almost personal Name to the believers.
[133] With this verse on his lips, unfinished, Calvin died, 1564.
[134] We cannot think that the κτίσις of this passage refers only, as some would have it, to humanity (as Mark xvi. 15, Col. i. 23). The κτίσις is a something which was "subjected" involuntarily, and so, surely, not guiltily. This could not be said of humanity.
[135] See Col. i. 15, 16. The Lord's Headship of Creation, explicitly revealed there, is seen as it were only just below the surface here.
[136] See the perfect participle, σεσωσμένοι, Eph. ii. 5, 8.
[137] Is ἡ ἐλπὶς ever used in the N. T. in any other connexion than this?
[138] Luther's rendering is good as a paraphrase, Wir sind wohl selig, doch in der Hoffnung.